Palantir has great marketing. Several friends turned down offers from Facebook/Google/etc. for (much) more money to join Palantir because they "didn't want to

Palantir has great marketing. Several friends turned down offers from Facebook/Google/etc. for (much) more money to join Palantir because they "didn't want to sell ads" and somehow thought that Palantir's work would be more fulfilling. The government and NGO work certainly sounds compelling (you're going to be finding terrorists and improving public health) until you realize it's a soul-crushing job mostly pushing low-level data around.